September 27, 2016

Trump's rigged mic & Giuliani's justified paranoia

Trump said Tuesday on "Fox and Friends" that [his mic] was going on and off and that his volume was lower than Hillary Clinton’s microphone.

Trump tells Fox News he wonders "whether that wasn’t set up that way on purpose." He says "I don’t want to believe in conspiracy theories, but it was much lower than hers."

(Nearly as funny is that "Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN that she heard from audience members that his mic sounded off," but "from where she sat backstage, the mic sounded fine." Conway is hoping to flee her present disaster of a campaign with some human decency intact. I don't know why. She works in Republican politics.)

Rudy Giuliani floated the prospect of Trump not participating in further general election debates, after what he believes was inappropriate meddling Monday by moderator Lester Holt.

We need not ask what it is about simple truth and straightforward reality that so upsets the bowel movement of modern conservatism. The latter is steadfastly appalled by the dual former. Mr. Holt merely pointed out that Trump indeed supported the Iraq war, and that stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional. Nothing more. His were minimal requirements of any competent, responsible moderator. And yet Giuliani deemed them "ignorant fact check[s]."

Giuliani may be correct about those future debates, however. Trump's participation in them might well take him below 40 percent.

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Trump said Tuesday on "Fox and Friends" that [his mic] was going on and off and that his volume was lower than Hillary Clinton’s microphone.

Trump tells Fox News he wonders "whether that wasn’t set up that way on purpose." He says "I don’t want to believe in conspiracy theories, but it was much lower than hers."

(Nearly as funny is that "Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN that she heard from audience members that his mic sounded off," but "from where she sat backstage, the mic sounded fine." Conway is hoping to flee her present disaster of a campaign with some human decency intact. I don't know why. She works in Republican politics.)

Rudy Giuliani floated the prospect of Trump not participating in further general election debates, after what he believes was inappropriate meddling Monday by moderator Lester Holt.

We need not ask what it is about simple truth and straightforward reality that so upsets the bowel movement of modern conservatism. The latter is steadfastly appalled by the dual former. Mr. Holt merely pointed out that Trump indeed supported the Iraq war, and that stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional. Nothing more. His were minimal requirements of any competent, responsible moderator. And yet Giuliani deemed them "ignorant fact check[s]."

Giuliani may be correct about those future debates, however. Trump's participation in them might well take him below 40 percent.